2000: The Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan, or CERP, is authorized by Congress to restore and protect South ...

Friends of the Everglades is working to acquire 100,000 acres of land south of Lake Okeechobee to restore the flow of clean ...

Flow Equalization Basin, or FEB: A shallow man-made water storage area constructed for the collection of runoff that can be ...

During the wet season, nearby Lake Okeechobee spills over and flows into the Everglades. Water flows southward through ...

1881: Real estate developer Hamilton Disston buys 4 million acres and begins efforts to drain the Everglades. 1906: The first dredging project began in South Florida on the North New River Canal ...

Lake recovery discharges in winter should be rare, said Col. Brandon Bowman. "My gut tells me it will be every five years, ...

There’s mounting evidence Everglades pythons can migrate north and west from South Florida. Have they invaded the Treasure ...

Everglades: A unique subtropical wetland ecosystem that once covered about 3 million acres of South Florida. Water once flowed down the Kissimmee River into Lake Okeechobee then south to Florida Bay.

Residents are concerned about big developments coming to Everglades City. Though it's a tourist town, they say the community is delicate.